Archive Features

05/3/2010

Dan DeKeizer, chief executive officer, MetLife Assurance Limited, on ways to effectively reduce longevity


15/2/2010

Martin Palmer, head of corporate pensions marketing, Friends Provident, says that decumulation needs a re-think


21/1/2010

Hoong Wey Woon on the possible effects that climate change will have on property investment


21/1/2010

Scott Warner on the impact that Dark Pools have impact equity markets and their participants


21/1/2010

Christine Senior finds that some SIPP investors are taking the product's investment flexibility capabilities to the limit. But is the adoption of an adventurous strategy a wise move?


21/1/2010

Martin Palmer, head of corporate pensions marketing, Friends Provident, discusses the perils involved in planning for retirement


18/12/2009

Colin Tipping on what the financial crisis has meant for defined contribution (DC) schemes and members


21/10/2009

As a collective group, active managers, including unconstrained ones, have not exactly come out of the financial crisis with glowing returns. So how should trustees react? Marek Handzel finds out


21/10/2009

Post-Madoff, Joost Lobler explains the importance of employing a separate custodian when investing in funds of hedge funds for institutional investors


21/10/2009

What lies ahead – inflation, deflation or stagflation? Christine Senior examines what pension schemes need to do in order to avoid being caught out by new economic realities


21/10/2009

This year's Pensions Age delegated consulting roundtable discussed the concept, use, appeal and structure of this new evolution in scheme advice. This service, now available to UK schemes, is supposed to offer extra flexibility and quicker reactions in asset allocation. Did the panel buy it?


21/10/2009

Ellie Bennett on how the SSAS has risen again in 2009. For one product in the pensions space, 2009 really has been a great year. The Small Self-Administered Scheme (SSAS), once dismissed as a product belonging to an almost bygone age, is singing its comeback song.


21/10/2009

Martin Palmer, head of corporate pensions marketing at Friends Provident, advocates innovation to attract the attention of those not saving for retirement


14/9/2009

Richard Butcher, director of Pitmans Trustees, on how governance of group personal pensions has not kept pace with their own evolution


03/07/2009

It's time that all pension schemes took data cleansing seriously, finds Christopher Andrews


03/07/2009

The panellists on this year's SIPP roundtable cast a collective expert eye over the effects the current economic downturn is having on the self-invested personal pensions market.


03/07/2009

Marek Handzel recently caught up with Alderman Ian Luder - the Lord Mayor of the City of London - and found an individual championing the merits of financial education


03/07/2009

Richard Dingwall-Smith asks if bond investors should worry that central banks are taking risks with inflation.


03/07/2009

Sophie Baker assesses why Exchange Traded Funds have been one of the few recent investment success stories and whether they are gaining favour with UK pension funds


03/07/2009

Christopher Andrews finds that default funds need to change - and fast - if defined contribution (DC) scheme members are to see their retirement expectations being met